mistral

mistralai/mistral-vibe: Minimal CLI coding agent by Mistral - accompanying the AI Studio - Mistral AI there is also the Vibe coding interface to Devstral as open source. Very nice, because it makes a good pair. Will definitely try it out, even if I will probably rather reach for the powerhouses (Opus 4.6) for larger projects.

AI Studio - Mistral AI - as the situation in the USA becomes a bit more tense again, and simply because one should always check what is happening outside the USA, here is a link to a European alternative to the major US operators. Mistral offers a coding model with Mistral 2 that is not only open weights (i.e., freely available and operable if you have the necessary hardware), but also quite affordable when using Mistral itself. And the performance is slightly above Claude Haiku 4.5, and below Sonnet 4.5, but not by much. So quite usable and my first experiments were not bad. Unfortunately, no vision capability, so not very suitable for experiments with images (and therefore not ideal for my bDS), but still interesting enough to keep an eye on.